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1) The giver
Publisher
Anchor Bay Films
Pub. Date
2014
Formats
Description
The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before.
2) The founder
Pub. Date
2017
Formats
Description
Tells the true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers' speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
4) Dark horse
Publisher
Virgil Films & Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Romance blooms between two thirty-somethings in arrested development: an avid toy collector who is the dark horse of his family and a depressed woman on the rebound.
5) On the beach
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (134 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Radioactive fallout from a nuclear war has wiped out the entire northern hemisphere, with the exception of Australia. With fallout expected momentarily, the Australians review their lives, establish new relationships and prepare for their tragic demise.
7) Knives out
Publisher
Anchor Bay
Pub. Date
[2020].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A tribute to mystery mastermind Agatha Christie and a fun, modern-day murder mystery where everyone is a suspect. When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth...
8) Indio
Publisher
Excalibur Media Group
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"En una hacienda de los tiempos del Porfiriato, los obreros indios son maltratados y abusados por el cacique dueño de la hacienda"--Container.
The Indian workers are abused and mistreated by the owners of the land.
9) Snatch
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A diamond heist gone haywire launches gangster, bookies and a dog on a rollicking ride through the rugged world of bare-knuckle boxing in search of the missing stone.
11) Sophie's choice
Publisher
LIVE Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998], c1982
Physical Desc
1 DVD (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A drama set in post-World War II Brooklyn revolves around Sophie, a Polish Catholic beauty who survived Auschwitz, her lover, Nathan, and Stingo, a would-be writer. As the three grow closer, Stingo discovers the captivating and moving truths that each harbors.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Young Biff Grimes is the son of an Irishman who's better at blarney than at holding down a job. Determined to make something of himself, Biff takes a mail-order course in dentistry and practices his handiwork on dear old dad. In his spare time he manages to fall for Virginia Brush, "the strawberry blonde," but unfortunately Virginia is more interested in Hugo Barnstead, an up-and-coming financier. Virginia has another girl in mind for Biff: her best...
13) Chocolat
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a single mother and her young daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop--with Sunday hours--across the street from the local church, they are met with some resistance from the rigidly moral community. But as soon as the townspeople discover their delicious products, their attitudes begin to change.
14) Jaws
Formats
Description
When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
16) Matchstick men
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Neurotic con man Roy suffers from several emotional problems, including obsessive-compulsive disorder. He and his partner Frank swindle people out of money. Frank wants to pull a really big job, but Roy is too consumed with fear and panic attacks to join him. Only cigarettes and his trusty illegal prescription drugs seem to keep him going. When Roy finds himself in desperate need of more pills, he is forced to see legitimate psychotherapist Dr. Klein....
Publisher
Kino
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A film that celebrates the explosion of popular music that came out of LA's Laurel Canyon in the mid-60s as folk went electric and The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, and The Mamas and the Papas gave birth to the California Sound. It was a moment (1965 to 1967) when bands came to LA to emulate The Beatles, and Laurel Canyon emerged as a hotbed of creativity and collaboration for a new generation of artists who would soon put their stamp...
18) About time
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in his own life, so he decides to make his world a better place by getting a girlfriend. But as his unusual life progresses, Tim discovers that, in the end, making the most of life may not need time travel at all.
Formats
Description
Tthe story of media firebrand Molly Ivins, six feet of Texas trouble who took on Good Old Boy corruption wherever she found it. Her razor-sharp wit left both sides of the aisle laughing, and craving ink in her columns. She knew the Bill of Rights was in peril and said 'Polarizing people is a good way to win an election and a good way to wreck a country.' Molly's words have proved prescient.
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